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Tim Schroeder

Tim Schroeder

Founder and CEO of Hagen, the Danish-inspired specialty coffee brand with espresso bars across London and Amsterdam

Oct 7, 2026

Chris CharmakCORRESPONDENT
24:04
What is it about Häagen that differentiates it from other premium brands that might come out, premium coffee chains? How do you fit the Danish into that?
24:14
Yeah, no, I appreciate that, and that's a complicated question.
24:18
Our design is driven from a very much Danish approach So we remove seats in our bars to enhance the experience around the bar, the coffee making.
24:30
And that actually means that we create social spaces.
24:33
So if you go into a sushi bar, a cocktail bar, you like to sit in a bar and see the magic happen.
24:37
We created the same in Hagen around the espresso bar.
24:40
We wanna show our baristas their skills.
26:42
Is this part of then Simply Coffee growing up, as it were?
21:42
What is it about Hagen that differentiates it from other premium brands that might come out, premium coffee chains? How do you fit the Danish into that?
21:52
Yeah, I appreciate that, and that's a complicated question.
21:55
But first of all, our name Hagen is after Copenhagen.
21:58
It's the last part of that.
22:01
Our design is driven from a very much Danish approach.
22:06
So we remove seats in our bars to enhance the experience around the bar, the coffee making.
22:13
And that actually means that we create social spaces.
24:57
I was going to say also that obviously noticed compared to a Starbucks, like each coffee chain, each location is different, is designed differently.
Chris ChermackCORRESPONDENT
46:02
What is it about Hagen that differentiates it from other premium brands that might come out, premium coffee chains? How do you fit the Danish into that?
46:12
Yeah, I appreciate that.
46:14
And that's a complicated question.
46:15
But first of all, our name Hagen is after Copenhagen.
46:18
It's the last part of that.
46:20
And secondly...
46:22
Our design is driven from a very much Danish approach.
Chris ChermackCORRESPONDENT
49:17
I was going to say also that obviously noticed compared to a Starbucks, like each coffee chain, each location is different, is designed differently.

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